los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

anirudh DHAWAN: My intentions and research initiatives were the exploration of the design-related principles of automation, computation, material and sensory intelligence, and robotics by employing a scenario in Japan at the Fukoshima-Daichi Nuclear Facility; where the facility is being augmented to graft new extensions to active sectors(not currently damaged) with both material (radiation absorbent concrete) and immaterial systems (sensors, nodes).

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

ROBOT WORKSHOP COMPETITION
Honorable Mention — $100

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project:

anirudh DHAWAN & jili HUANG:The building is a dynamic form embedded and responding to its context by slowly revolving as it moves social gathering spaces to workshop, classroom, and administrative spaces. The heavy duty work involving the utilization of 6-7 axis Kuka robots is maintained in an internal vortex which acts as the controlling spine of the envelope form. The 3d printing and robotics workshops for territorial and responsive robots which involve less bulk tooling are given space above the ground floor.

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